Comments by "nuqwestr" (@nuqwestr) on "" video.

Los Angeles doesn't grow Almonds. Those areas used to grow raisins until the new globalist economy shipped in cheap ones from Europe. Los Angeles captured 96 billion gallons of storm runoff in 2022/23 and recharged aquafers and catch basins, enough for 2.4 million homes for a year. San Diego has the largest desalination plant in the Western Hemisphere. We are adapting, a little late, but doing it. The Stone Canyon reservoir had plenty of water to fight the fires, and we also used the Pacific Ocean. ENSO (El Nino / La Nina) runs our weather, not climate change. I live on the Pacific Coast in SoCal. The coldest, wettest 5 year period I've experienced in the 30 years I've lived here. We are socked in from fog today, and the entire month of December fogged in Malibu and the Pacific Palisades. The term "Santa Ana Winds" was coined in 1886; "Climate Change"? The plants and animals adapted to fire/wind before humans arrived more than 20,000 years ago, Climate Change? Nonsense.
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The house in Altadena, CA did not have to burn. There are after market retrofits that can harden your home to fire. One product is VULCAN VENTS. We can adapt, and homes built after the 1980s no longer have wood shake tile roofs. We are responsible, ultimately, not the government.
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Los Angeles County is 5,000 square miles, 9 million people, larger than some European countries like Denmark. You cannot compare the two.
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@ It's smaller than 1.5 degrees of global warmth as the models have error rates so high we can't depend on them to make policy 100 years out.
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@txryder79 "accept science" is an oxymoron. Eugenics was once "science". Einstein said the cosmological constant was science. Science is the opposite of a "belief system".
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The term "Santa Ana Winds" was coined in 1886; "Climate Change"? The plants and animals adapted to fire/wind events before humans arrived more than 20,000 years ago, Climate Change? Nonsense.
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The Historic Charles and Ray Eames home (famous for the Eames Chair) in the Pacific Palisades did not burn. The conservancy for the home followed guidelines to hardened the home from fire, including covering the large plate glass windows with fire retardant when the high wind warning came two days ahead of the fire. We can adapt, the knowledge was in place to adapt, we did not listen to the science, not climate science, but fire science.
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Arson and Power line fire nothing to do with "Climate Change"
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@Icebikerwife53 No the winds are not "stronger" or more frequent. The term "Santa Ana Winds" was first coined in 1886. You believe they are stronger and more frequent because you were told to believe that.
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@AmbergrisBurp I was born mid-1950s in San Fernando Valley. The last 4 wind seasons have been very weak. I'm a surfer living at the beach and pray for the Santa Ana offshore winds. Not much in the last 5 years. The winds are driven by the ENSO cycle which was first noted in the 18rh century and called El Nino / La Nina. BTW, it's been seriously cold and foggy at the beach since April of last year. We had a deep marine layer today, and the big December swell at Malibu and Ventura was totally fogged in, and ocean temps are about normal for a switch between El Nino and La Nina 58 degrees. You are being brain hacked to believe something that even goes against your own personal experience. Very dangerous.
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Homes are the fuel but don't have to be, you can hardened your home against wildfire.
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"The idea is to keep flames and heat away from a home and reduce the likelihood of embers finding a weak spot to enter and burn it from the inside. These efforts don’t have to be expensive, said Berlant, pointing to a list of low-cost retrofits from the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection." - California Fire Marshal Daniel Berlant (LA Times Article Jan 2025)
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@Icebikerwife53 California State Fire Marshall, their website has retrofit recommendations like Vulcan Vents. "Miriam Schulman, one of Yusi’s neighbors, said her house was spared. She credits measures she took that included new air vents resistant to embers and painting the eaves." - Los Angeles Times Article after the fire. "Lessons from the burn zone: Why some homes survived the L.A. wildfires" - LA Times. It's all there read it.
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I agree and live in the fire area. The California Fire Marshall has a website on how to retrofit your older home to be fire hardened. Some did it and there home did not burn in the Palisades. Even the LA Times reported that fact.
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FALSE FALSE FALSE. Los Angeles County captured 96 billion gallons of storm runoff in 2022/23, enough for 2.4 million homes for a year. San Diego has the largest desalination plant in the Western Hemisphere. SoCal is NOT feed by Shasta, the LADWP draws from the Eastern Sierra and is owned by the people of Los Angeles. WTF.
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The claim that one person or entity owns all the water in California's Central Valley often stems from misinformation and misconceptions about the water rights and usage in the region. Specifically, this rumor frequently targets Stewart and Lynda Resnick, owners of the Wonderful Company, which includes popular brands like Fiji Water and Pom Wonderful. While the Resnicks do have significant water rights and own a majority stake in the Kern Water Bank Authority, their control is far from monopolistic. The Kern Water Bank can store up to 1.5 million acre-feet of water, but this is only a small fraction of California's overall water supply. California's groundwater basins and surface reservoirs have a much larger capacity. In reality, no single individual or company owns most of California's water. Water rights and usage are regulated by various entities, including state and federal agencies, to ensure that water resources are managed and distributed fairly.
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There was no WATER SUPPLY issue, the Stone Canyon Reservoir was full and functional. It was water pressure. What in god's name are you talking about?
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DEI is an artificial injection of randomness into a closed system which can be measured as an increase in Entropy. Total Entropy in a closed system is measured by its complete chaos in disorder. DEI = Entropy = Total Disorder. Believe the "Science" the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics.
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Some did and homes were saved. We even closed roads ahead of winds. We have updated fire codes for newer homes, the Palisades were built in the 1950s.
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@Icebikerwife53 "The idea is to keep flames and heat away from a home and reduce the likelihood of embers finding a weak spot to enter and burn it from the inside. These efforts don’t have to be expensive, he said, pointing to a list of low-cost retrofits from the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection." - California Fire Marshal Daniel Berlant (LA Times Article Jan 2025)
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@Icebikerwife53 So sorry, I misunderstood completely. So much of the thread content is troll. I'll delete my last content. BTW, I grew-up in the area of the Palisades, my cousins high school burned down, and family members were evacuated. I lived through many fires, also worked to reseed areas after burns in Malibu. People in the Palisades like their homes overgrown with trees and high privacy hedges. We all knew it would go up in flames hard one day. I voted to recall Newsom for other reasons, this devastation could have been greatly mitigated by fire hardening homes.
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LA is not on fire, nor did it burn down. Los Angeles County is 5,000 square miles and 9 million people. Are you nuts?
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Wind/Fire events predate human arrival in SoCal. The plants and animals adapted 20,000 years ago. Redwoods thrive in fire. The little Manzanita plant used fire/wind to propagate. That's "science-fact" but you ignore it, that denial.
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The science not accepted in this case was "fire science". The State Fire Marshall's website has details on how to hardened your home from wildfires. Those who protect vents, eaves, windows and roofs still have their homes. The LA Times did a full featured article on this "Science Fact". Your denial is not knowing the facts to begin with.
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Yet it has been cold and foggy since November in this fire zone. I live here, Malibu was so fogged in during the December big surf swell you couldn't see them coming from outside. Easy to fact check.
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In 2020, the Great Lakes area experienced *38 tornadoes* over a five-day period in June. In the year 2000, the Great Lakes area experienced **78 tornadoes**. This was part of a larger pattern of tornado activity across the United States that year.
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